Concordat amendment helped religious pluralism - Mattarella - General News. 1984 agreement significantly amending the 1929 Concordat regulating the relations between the Roman Catholic and the Italian State.

President Sergio Mattarella: "The 1984 Framework Agreement paved the way for the agreements subsequently concluded by the State with other confessions" The original Concordat is one part of the broader Lateran Pacts of 1929 between the Kingdom of Italy under King Victor EmmanuelIII and Premier Benito Mussolini and the Holy See under Pope Pius XI.